said by fegul :

I usually just have my school email forwarded to my Gmail account anyways. If I want to send an email using my schools email address, I do have to use their webmail

Arizona State University, in partnership with Google, is excited to
announce a new, improved student email system with email, calendaring
and IM built on Gmail and Google's other collaboration tools. The
benefits to you include:

* A massively increased storage quota - 2 Gigs

* Shared calendaring to coordinate schedules with classmates

* Instant messaging capability right from your inbox

* A search mechanism to mine your emails

* Improved spam and virus filtering

Best of all, you keep your current asu.edu address, keeping you
connected with the ASU community and ensuring seamless email delivery.
You will continue to login to email as you do other ASU systems - using
your ASURITE User ID - and your EMMA archive will be available after the
switch. The complete transition to Gmail for ASU and the
decommissioning of EMMA services will occur in January 2007, but you
don't have to wait.
For more details or to sign up simply click www.asu.edu/emailsignup. For
frequently asked questions, please visit »gmail.wiki.asu.edu.